Practicing primarily in the United States Court of Appeals, Sidney Powell, P.C. represents clients in a wide variety of civil and criminal litigation in our federal courts.

Sidney Powell has served as counsel in more than five hundred appeals to the Fifth Circuit, including the $3 billion national asbestos class action, Ahearn v. Fibreboard, and the government’s criminal prosecution of Enron-related defendants.  Ms. Powell co-authored the book on Fifth Circuit practice: Federal Appellate Practice Guide: Fifth Circuit (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing 1994). She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, for which she has served as President.  She is an AV rated lawyer, consistently rated as a Texas Super-Lawyer for years.

Ms. Powell held the office of President of the Fifth Circuit Bar Association from 1989 through 1991. Ms. Powell has been the Editor of the Fifth Circuit Reporter, and has served as chairperson and lecturer at each annual Fifth Circuit Appellate Practice and Advocacy Seminar from 1987 to 2010. Ms. Powell has served for years as an instructor for the ABA, Texas State Bar, Federal Bar, and various university appellate courses, and she taught multiple separate courses in appellate advocacy and criminal trial at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute for the United States Department of Justice from 1984 through 1988.

Ms. Powell received her Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of North Carolina in 1978 and 1976, respectively, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

In addition to writing the book on Fifth Circuit practice, Ms. Powell has authored or co-authored numerous articles explaining the nuances of Fifth Circuit practice, including: The Ins and Outs of Federal Court: A Practitioner’s Guide to Removal and Remand, co-authored with Deborah Pearce, 17 MISS. C.L. REV 227 (1997); Revised Rule 11: Is it Safer?, 15 MISS. C.L. REV. 271 (1995); Federal Appeals in the Fifth Circuit: Tips for the Texas Practitioner, 42 BAYLOR L. REV. 97 (1990).  Most recently, Ms. Powell authored a chapter in an Appellate Practice manual that will be published in 2011.